2017 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 417 - Veterans’ Services and Honorary Recognition Related to Military Service
NRS 417.200 - Establishment, operation and maintenance; employment and duties of cemetery superintendent; landscaping; procedure for offering voluntary services.

1. The Director shall establish, operate and maintain a veterans’ cemetery in northern Nevada and a veterans’ cemetery in southern Nevada, and may, within the limits of legislative authorization, employ personnel and purchase equipment and supplies necessary for the operation and maintenance of the cemeteries. The Director shall employ a cemetery superintendent to operate and maintain each cemetery.

2. The cemetery superintendent shall, if a veteran does not indicate by testamentary instrument that the veteran desires to have the area immediately above and surrounding the interred remains of the veteran landscaped with xeriscaping, or if an application for interment submitted pursuant to NRS 417.210 does not indicate that the veteran desires to have the area immediately above and surrounding the interred remains of the veteran landscaped with xeriscaping, ensure that the area immediately above and surrounding the interred remains of the veteran in the veterans’ cemetery is landscaped with natural grass.

3. A person desiring to provide voluntary services to further the establishment, maintenance or operation of either of the cemeteries shall submit a written offer to the cemetery superintendent which describes the nature of the services. The cemetery superintendent shall consider all such offers and approve those he or she deems appropriate. The cemetery superintendent shall coordinate the provision of all services so approved.

(Added to NRS by 1987, 991; A 1995, 2526; 1997, 2589; 2009, 1832; 2013, 2505; 2015, 566)